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Five Essays on the Bible: Papers read at the 1960 Annual Meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies


Goodenough, et al. , Erwin R.

Hardcover. New York , American Council of Learned Societies, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856112


Price: $25.00 

 

Fletcher, Beaumont and Company: Entertainers of the Jacobean Gentry


Wallis, Lawrence B.

Hardcover. New York, Octagon Books, rep, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 315 pages. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Red cover with gold lettering. Markings to covers. No dust jacket.

Record # 503063


Price: $12.00 

 

Foe of Compromise and Other Essays, The


Brown, William Garrott

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages, frontispece portrait of author tipped-in. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Fraying and fading to cover edges. Page 161 has residue, there is light foxing throughout. Gutter-cracked in several places.

Record # 602485


Price: $18.00 

Folklore: Volume 79 1968 (4 issues)Folk-Lore Society
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Folklore: Volume 79 1968 (4 issues)


Folk-Lore Society

Softcover. London, The Folk-Lore Society/ William Glaisher, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovers, 325 pages total in four quarterly issues. Scholarly essays on all aspects of folk studies worldwide. Articles include: Neapolitan Charms Against the Evil Eye, A St. George Mumming from British West Indies, The Image of Cromwell in Folklore and Tradition, "Collyweston" as Metaphor, others. Clean copies.

Record # 411623


Price: $25.00 

Folklore: Volume 80 1969 (4 issues)Folk-Lore Society
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Folklore: Volume 80 1969 (4 issues)


Folk-Lore Society

Softcover. London, The Folk-Lore Society/ William Glaisher, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovers, 330 pages total in four quarterly issues. Scholarly essays on all aspects of folk studies worldwide. Clean copies.

Record # 411620


Price: $25.00 

Folklore: Volume 81 1970 (4 issues)Folk-Lore Society
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Folklore: Volume 81 1970 (4 issues)


Folk-Lore Society

Softcover. London, The Folk-Lore Society/ William Glaisher, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovers, 335 pages total in four quarterly issues. Scholarly essays on all aspects of folk studies worldwide. Clean copies.

Record # 411621


Price: $25.00 

Folklore: Volume 82 1971 (4 issues)Folk-Lore Society
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Folklore: Volume 82 1971 (4 issues)


Folk-Lore Society

Softcover. London, The Folk-Lore Society/ William Glaisher, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovers, 360 pages total in four quarterly issues. Scholarly essays on all aspects of folk studies worldwide. Articles include: S. F. Sanderson 'Towards an Atlas of British Folk Culture', John Widdowson 'The Bogeyman', Peschel 'Structural Parallels in Two Flood Myths', Dalton 'The Loathly Lady', McNeil 'The Function of Legend, Belief and Custom in Precious Bane', Remly 'The Anglo-Saxon Gnomes as Sacred Poetry', Ruth Michaelis-Jena 'Oral Tradition and the Brothers Grimm', Martin Puhvel 'The Swimming Prowess of Beowulf', K. Palmer and R.W. Patten 'Some Notes on Wassailing and Ashen Faggots in South and West Somerset'. George Monger 'A Note on Wedding Customs in Industry Today', Clean copies.

Record # 411622


Price: $25.00 

 

Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, The


Turner, Victor

Softcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, Reprint, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 405 pages. Frontispiece, 20 black-and-white illustrations, and 11 diagrams. Minor edge wear, particularly along spine. Some sun-fading along spine and rear cover. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Pencil markings in introduction and 1st chapter. Good reading copy.

Record # 856126


Price: $13.00 

 

Forest, The


Kummerly, Walter

Hardcover. Washington/NY, Robert B. Luce, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Hardcover. A collection of essays, color and black & white photography on the world's forests. Gilt titles on spine. Gilt decoration on cover. Transl. from German by Ewald Osers. 2 small lib stamps otherwise VG, lacks dust jacket.

Record # 67602


Price: $30.00 

 

Forms in Metal: 275 Years of Metalsmithing in America


Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Crafts Council/Finch College Museum of Art

Softcover. New York, Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Crafts Council/Finch College Museum of Art, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 36 pages. Exhibition catalog. Copper stapled wrappers, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, essays by Robert H. Luck and Paul J. Smith, complete catalogue. Slight rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; overall a very clean, tight catalog.

Record # 808205


Price: $13.00 

Forties, TheWilson, Edmund and Leon Edel (Ed.)
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Forties, The


Wilson, Edmund and Leon Edel (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 369 pages, maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with minor soil, edgewear, closed tear to rear panel.

Record # 406009


Price: $19.00 

 

Forward From Liberalism


Spender, Stephen

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st US, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, dj w/ edgewear, chipping, previous owner's bookplate front pastedown

Record # 16105


Price: $40.00 

 

Founding of the Henry E. Huntington Library and the Art Gallery, The - Four Essays


Huntington Library

Softcover. San Marino CA, Huntington Library, 2nd, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W illustrated, 96 pages and wraps

Record # 1119


Price: $12.00 

 

Four American Priimitives: Edward Hicks, John Kane, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, Horace Pippin


ACA Galleries

Softcover. New York, New York, ACA Galleries, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Brown covers with dark brown and blue titles, foreword by Andrew J. Crispo, several essays by various authors, over 64 b&w plates throughout with many additional portions of plates blown-up to full-page illustration. Slight rubbing to covers; otherwise a very clean tight, copy.

Record # 806487


Price: $12.00 

 

Francis Chapin


Schulze (essay), Franz

Softcover. Chicago, IL, Fairweather Hardin Gallery, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with glossy tan covers. Minor scratches and rubbing. Previous price inscription on title page. Paper wrappers in good condition, tight. Pages are unmarked, slightly sunned at edges and bent in upper corner. Beautiful b/w and color plates of artist's work throughout, including paintings, lithographs and sketches. Essays in front. 47 pages.

Record # 807419


Price: $19.00 

 

Franklin's Bagatelles


Rosengarten, J. G.

Hardcover. American Philosophical Society, reprint, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages, gilt top edge and title on spine, half leather bound with marbled cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf and endpaper, minor edge fade. English and French text, overall, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853980


Price: $30.00 

 

Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist


Frieseke, Frederick Carl and David Sellin Mecklenburg

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Illustrated with 109 color, 80 b&w plates. Bright, clean copy in original shrinkwrap. First serious study of this American impressionist with critical essays by several art scholars.

Record # 511964


Price: $32.00 

 

Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)


Sundquist, Eric J.

Softcover. US, Cambridge University Press, rep, 1993-02-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages. Light spotting to wrappers and fore edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462648


Price: $15.00 

 

Free Radical


Benn, Tony

Softcover. Continuum, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 454823


Price: $30.00 

 

French Art: Mead Art Museum Monographs, Volumes 8 & 9, Winter 1987-1988


Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

Softcover. Amherst, AM, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Edited by Frank Trapp. White wrappers with b&w illustration and blue titles, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with large color and b&w plates, introduction, essays by Frank Trapp, Eric M. Zafran, Judith A. Barter, and Jay M. Fisher. Clean wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight catalog in great condition.

Record # 807838


Price: $26.00 

 

Friendship and Literature - Spirit and Form


Sharp, Ronald A.

hardcover. Durham, NC, Duke Univ. Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages.

Record # 64601


Price: $15.00 

From a limestone edge: Some essays and other ruminations about country life in TexasGraves, John, Illust. by: Glenn  Wolff
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From a limestone edge: Some essays and other ruminations about country life in Texas


Graves, John, Illust. by: Glenn Wolff

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 228 pages, b&w illustrations by Glenn Wolff. Front panel of dust jacket with a short closed tear. Review slip laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 415297


Price: $50.00 

 

From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology


Gerth, H. H. and C. Wright Mills

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 3rd pr, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 490 pages, b&w frontispiece. Dark green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing to cover corners. Slight wrinkling to top edge of rear cover. Previous owner's signature inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851530


Price: $40.00 

From Set Shot to Slam Dunk: The Glory Days of Basketball in the Words of Those Who Played ItSalzberg, Charles
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From Set Shot to Slam Dunk: The Glory Days of Basketball in the Words of Those Who Played It


Salzberg, Charles

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 234 pages. Light blue cloth cover, light wear to edges, some faint stains. Dust jacket has minor bumping to edges. Inside is bright and clean with b&w photographs.

Record # 455663


Price: $12.00 


  
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